Dark Shadows1966

Roger Collins:
What do you want?

Victoria Winters:
I think I left a drawing in here.

Roger Collins:
It's on the table.

Victoria Winters:
Oh, thank you. I think David would kill me if I lost this.

Roger Collins:
My son might kill you even if you didn't.

Victoria Winters:
It's very good. Have you seen it?

Roger Collins:
Yes, I saw it.

Victoria Winters:
He's got a real potential in drawing.

Roger Collins:
Miss Winters, I am in no mood to discuss David's talents, great or small.

Victoria Winters:
I think this is important. We all know how destructive he's been.

Roger Collins:
Yes, we know.

Victoria Winters:
But this is creative, and something he likes to do.

Roger Collins:
I see. And you intend to nurture this sudden urge of creativity?

Victoria Winters:
I think it's a way of reaching him, and showing him the world isn't completely hostile.

Roger Collins:
What makes you think it isn't? Have you ever thought that David's view might be the correct one?

Victoria Winters:
You don't think that.

Roger Collins:
Oh, don't I, though? I was once nine years old, as David is. But unlike him, Miss Winters, I was filled with joy and the spirit of living, with love and the promise of a good, full life ahead. Well, maybe it's far better to be nine years old and know how ugly life can be.

Victoria Winters:
Oh, that isn't so.

Roger Collins:
Maybe it's better to know that you live in world where hands are reaching out, waiting to tear you to shreds... and they do... they do... eagerly, anxiously.

Victoria Winters:
Everyone doesn't have to think that way.

Roger Collins:
Pollyanna! Miss Pollyanna in a world of pain! Well, enjoy it while you can. But take my advice. Don't spend much time trying to destroy David's instinctive grasp of the truth. Let me see the drawing.

Victoria Winters:
[handing David's drawing to Roger] I took it from David's room without his permission, so you can see how frantic I was when I found it missing.

Roger Collins:
[looking at David's drawing] Collinwood, with all its dark shadows. He's captured it, all right.